Swoope and Collision Records told Rapzilla on Friday that they had agreed to separate (on very good terms). The departure has made him one of the most valuable, unsigned artists in Christian hip hop.
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Christian Hip Hop's Best of awards are back again! If we would’ve told you that Reach, Humble Beast and Lamp Mode would only release a combined six albums in 2015, you probably would’ve thought it’d be a slow year for Christian hip hop.
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The vast majority of the responses to “Off the Leash,” the lead single of Datin’s upcoming album, The Roar, were positive. But a few of negative responses took aim not at his delivery, but instead the heart behind the delivery.
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Rapper Corey Paul hasn’t gone out of his way to tell listeners about his day job, but when fellow Collision Records artist Alex Faith learned that Paul was a firefighter, Faith wasn’t surprised. Neither was Houston juvenile probation supervisor Dan Hicks, who runs a Christian-based mentorship program where Paul regularly volunteers.
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In the early days of Christian hip hop, it was hard for any church to fully accept the biblical validity of such new and “pagan” sounding music. In many cases, it was just too much for traditionalists to swallow.
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Many of the Rapzilla readers enjoyed our previous article titled “5 Moments Christian Hip-Hop Would Like to Pretend Never Happened” and after receiving an overwhelming amount of submissions for choices that were worse, we decided to give you all five more.
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Jailed in December for allegedly assaulting a SeaWorld haunted house employee, PyRexx is back. The Houston-based Christian rapper's case has been dismissed after he spent 30 days behind bars.
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Somewhere in the small town of Brandon, Mississippi, an 18-year-old freshman at a local community college is making beats with the aid of cheap desktop speakers, Beats headphones and a basic keyboard.
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Andy Mineo, KB, Bizzle, Swoope, Canon, Eshon Burgundy and S.O. are some of the most important artists in Christian hip hop, and they all were members of Rapzilla’s inaugural Freshman class in 2011.
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Hip-Hop music is a major force in today’s music and culture, and it is hard to imagine a time without it. However, in the late 80s and early 90s it was still in its infancy which caused many moments that can be perceived as “Not so Hip-Hop.”
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Christian rapper PyRexx wrote a letter this past weekend to Rapzilla from the Harris County Jail, where last week he was locked up for allegedly assaulting a SeaWorld haunted house employee, which violated his parole, according to his mentor Tre9.
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Courtney Orlando released a music video on Friday for the first song he recorded in nearly five years, “Brother,” which was birthed out of the most painful eight months of his life this past year.
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PyRexx, a Houston-based Christian rapper who had served six-and-a-half years behind bars before he turned his life around, is back in jail. But according to his mentor, Tre9, PyRexx’s faith remains strong — he just experienced a series of unfortunate events.
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Well into the creation of Return of the Rookie, the free EP that Serge released on Tuesday, the South Florida-based rapper and his producer, Mashell Leroy, came to an agreement about the concept of the project.
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In the earliest days of Reach Records, it seemed that they were unapologetically standing on the side of Christian music that had to be preachy and overtly religious or it was deemed not “Christian” enough. I’ve never heard anyone from Reach Records say this, but the tone of their music and general conversation was that if your music wasn’t Christian “on the surface,” then you just might be ashamed of the Gospel.
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With Thanksgiving Day tomorrow Rapzilla decided to poll some of the artists we cover and see what some of their favorite food items are for the holiday. From corn bread to sweet potato pie, see if these artists share the same tastebuds as you the fans, and most importantly, Happy Thanksgiving.
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A few weeks ago, I tweeted thoughts I’ve been working through regarding the potential impact CHH (Christian hip hop) can achieve. Since CHH is arguably 30 years old now, I’m wrestling through our lack of impact, organized leadership, strategy, togetherness with churches and vision. It's not that we don’t possess the attributes in part, rather, in my limited assessment, what we lack is an organized philosophy of mission bringing all these attributes together in order to mobilizes masses into action.
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There is no better way for an artist to communicate with their fans than through social media. Rapzilla has compiled a list of the Top 20 Christian Rap artists who have figured out how to best reach their fans on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
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Gospel legend Kirk Franklin was recently on Power 105.1's "The Breakfast Club" where he kept it real about sexuality, pornography, his conversion to Christ as a teen, and new album Losing My Religion.
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Before Dylan Phillips went by the stage name nobigdyl., he was one of a few black teens at his high school in the small, rural town of Bell Buckle, Tenn.; facing common struggles of adolescence, as well as some more unique.
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J. Monty likes surprises. On Friday, the Atlanta-based rapper released his debut album, Second Born, a title which fans are left to assume refers to J. Monty, given that a photograph of a baby is on his album cover.
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